Bemidji Community Food Shelf

Analysis

Bemidji Community Food Shelf is a registered charity in United States, based in Bemidji, MN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1985, 41 years ago. Its declared purposes cover food, agriculture and nutrition, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Bemidji Community Food Shelf reported income of $987k and spending of $877k, spending 89% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $736k to $987k (+34%), an average of +7.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 82%. Over the whole period it spent 82% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Bemidji Community Food Shelf sits at the 75th percentile: it is larger than about 75% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 79th percentile, and in the 78th percentile within MN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Youth & Family Counseling Agency of Oyster Bay-East Norwich Inc ($987k), Vna Apartments Inc ($987k) and Sterling Rock Falls Day Care Center ($987k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $107k. At year end it held assets of $1.7m against liabilities of $295k, net assets of $1.4m. It reported 8 employees.